Screenings Mediterranean shorts-Special Montpellier Festival
Amal
35mm - 17' - Color - Fiction - 2004 - Morocco
Synopsis
Amal is a 12 year old girl who lives in the Moroccan countryside. Everyday, she wakes up and walks with her brother to the school located a few miles away from their farm. As a serious and passionate pupil, she dreams of becoming a doctor. Until the day her parents decide she will not be returning to school anymore.
Datasheet
- Direction and screenplay: Ali Benkirane
- Production: Pablo Mehler, Bénédicte Bellocq, Souad Lamriki
- Cinematography: Georges Diane, Elin Kirschfink
- Editing: Thomas Courcelle
- Sound: Guillaume Lebraz
- Art direction: Laurent Allaire
- Cast: Soumaya Chifa, Fouad Labied, Mohamed Choubi, Ibtissam El Ouali, Joachim Hazan, Touria Aazim, Mohamed Majd, Rahma Yousfi, Latifa Lamhani
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